on top of the people who are crowded into the stagecoach, literally piled on top of the stagecoach are some people of color. you have an african-american couple and a latino person on top of the stagecoach riding on the outside. and you have a native american woman waving farewell to the travelers. interestingly, the native person is depicted as being present rather than having been removed. she is waving to people as they go further west. perhaps good riddance. i'm not sure. then there is an anglo-american, a white american woman and her son look like they are trying to board if they can squeeze themselves in there somehow. the boy holds in his hand an origami crane that then it the -- it evokes birds that are flying overhead. i have not been able to find any that origamihis would've been practiced in the 19th century here. i don't know how common it was among boys in japan in the 1850's. this suggests to me that he was not comfortable depicting asian-americans despite the fact that there was a substantial chinese population recruited to the west to help build the railroad. that is no

it is a stagecoach rather than a covered wagon. conveyance, then you have people inside the stagecoach. you have people of various ages and people of different ethnicities. on top of the people who are crowded into the , literally piled on top of the stagecoach are some people of color. you have an african-american couple and a latino person on top of the stagecoach riding on the outside. a native american woman waving farewell to the travelers. interestingly, the native person is pictured being present rather than having been removed. she is waving to people as they go further west. perhaps good riddance. an anglo-american, a white american woman and her son look like they are trying to board if they can squeeze themselves in there somehow. the boy holds in his hand and origami crane that then it the birds that are flying overhead. to find anyeen able historical precedents for this that origami would've been practiced in the 19th century here. i don't know how common it was among boys in japan in the 1850's. this suggests to me th

have all your-hear all the stories, not only from stagecoach drivers, but from other park police. and then as now, everyone is into her guide. everyone was ready to tell you all about the marvelous things were going to see. beginning in the 1880's, yellowstone got a stagecoach company in the interior in the interior and the park company. there were already outfits to the west. in the park, they got one in 1883. they put up this big hotel we see behind us, that was built in 1883. people were in this country, tired of camping out. they had lived that way through the 18th and 19th centuries. and they wanted a little more comfort. now camping out would come back, in the 1920's, it would become voguish again. but yellowstone was a system of five big hotels serving visitors until the 1880's up until 1916. and we had autos in many of the cities and towns of the nation pretty early. the earliest autos were chain driven in 1886, the first when i can remember. and by 1900, so many towns had automobiles, primitive ones, alongside horses and wagons. and not in yellowstone. this remained a pri

>> when they visited each other, i assume it was a stagecoach with a dirt road. how long did it take to get from boston to plymouth? edith: certainly. they did not drop in and stay for a few hours, no. it was long. one of the topics that i have not addressed ever, but if i live long enough, is travel. because she described in detail, she traveled from boston to washington, d.c. by coach. and in the paper i read last night, she went from washington , d.c. visit martha washington and alexandria. nine miles. it took two days. [laughter] edith: because it was winter and the roads were rutted. travel was not fun. they didn't know differently. very often those stagecoaches were not sprung either, and they also traveled by water. that was not fun either. >> [inaudible] it is still very hard to comprehend how that woman managed that property and that entire household, and what kind how theshe had and children participated in it. you know, and how she maintained her health. edith: health is another topic. she had terrible health. always sick. >> really? edith: yes. but ab

very often those stagecoaches were not sprung. they also traveled by water. that was not fun either. >> it is so hard to imagine how that woman managed that property. and what kind of help she had. and how the children participated in it. how she maintained her health. health is another topic. she was always sick. we have two race refrigerators, air conditioning. they could not have imagined things to be. with they be surprised if they were here tonight? lights. >> can you give us a view click thoughts on abigail and slavery? >> she was opposed to it. strongly opposed to that. john adams never had a slave and would not allow it in his family. she grew up with slaves in the household. >> are you a letter writer? i write very long emails to some people. [laughter] i cannot remember writing a that was not a formal letter that had a stamp on it for a very long time. remember stamps? [laughter] letter writing is not happening. what three words or characteristics come to your mind when you think about abigail adams? wisdom, stamina, persistence, loyalty, affection,

he could have taken a stagecoach , that was operating at the time, from boston to new york. it to two weeks -- actually it only took one week to travel, in hartford.d that is where the stagecoach guy lived. they probably stayed at his place, made more money. or he could have rented horses. we don't know for certain. >> michael, you have a theory aout hamilton preferring place of birth because it would have provided british citizenship, but wouldn't st. kitts have done the same? mr. newton: yes. first i want to explain my theory. we are just open to this is plausiblehat it eustacius. could have said st. kitts. he could've said any other island. any other british island. hamilton wrote in a letter that his parents were married on st. kitts. that probably would have made more sense. you could say that the reason he showed the preference was that was where he was born. that is what he wrote. there is no other evidence. except for misrepresenting his age, basically all that hamilton writes -- which is not very much -- everything he writes about true.rly childhood roots he said th

he could have taken a stagecoach, which was operating from boston to new york. it took two weeks. -- it only took one week to travel but they took a stop at hot ford -- hartford. so they probably stayed at his place and made more money. or he could have rented horses, so we do not know for certain. >> you had a theory about hamilton preferring nevis as a place of birth because of what it provided -- it would have provided british citizenship. haven't the other island done the same? michael: i want to address my theory. that is only assuming that it was not actually nevis. we are assuming that he was born there. we are open to the possibility because of the lack of primary source evidence that is plausible that it was st. eustatius, but i am not arguing for it. i believe that he was born on nevis. he could have said any other island, any other british island. they would have been the logical ones. hamilton wrote that his parents were married there. that probably would have made more sense because he would have mentioned that. nevis is the islands that his mother

that's because he would capture prairie dogs and sell them to the people on the stagecoach after they had enough to drink, presumably. then off they would go. that was a thriving business in abilene, before the mccoy brothers got there. so the mccoy brothers put together what they called the great western stockyards. now, i don't know about you, but when i think about the stockyards in chicago, i think about the stockyards in new jersey. something is lacking here in the word great. but you can't see it really well, but alexander gardner, who took this photograph in 1867, a very well-known photographer, caught the signs up here. great western stockyards. right above there. i tend to think, given the stature of this individual, that that may have been joseph mccoy standing up there taking all this in. so what motivated him and his brothers to put in this tens of thousands of dollars into this operation? well, it was this. eventually they're going to put a hotel there as part of the great union stockyards. it's called the drover's got taj. that's where the businessmen came. that's where

on september 24, senator sd evans met a man on a stage -- wrote that he met a man on a stagecoach who witnessed blacks being taken prisoner, tortured and treated in a barbarous manner, nose and ears cut off, cheeks cut out, jaws broken and set up as a mark to shoot at. if a black was found outdoors after dark without a pass, he would be shut down -- he would be shot down. the constitutional wig reported they had evidence of a slaughter of many blacks without misconduct, and under circumstances of great barbarity. offered the whigs apology to the people of southhampton, mildly deplored that human nature urged them to but thosemities, concerned said another such insurrection would be a signal for the extermination of the whole black population in the quarter of the state where it occurred. threat,rds were no idle as white former resident mr. robinson confirmed that there was not a virginian whose mind would revolt at any accrual to -- at any cruelty, however atrocious, of which blacks might be the object. robinson, he assumed blacks were not men and ought all to be exterminated. they ha